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Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic ParadigmEssays by A.T. Williams Introduction
The Perpetual Puzzle of NatureNature is a highly complex puzzle that to one degree or another has fascinated all peoples, in all places, at all times. And the continued advancement of scientific knowledge, i.e., the constructive representation of the unconditioned one and the conditionally relative many, leaves little doubt that the perpetual puzzle of Nature only seems to grow larger as one or another piece of the puzzle is discovered and put into place. Any addition of a novel new piece of the perpetual puzzle of Nature may significantly increase the scope of scientific knowledge beyond previous theoretical and experimental limitations. For example, the unexpected discovery of the revolutionary universal principle of energy by this author in the year 2000 – published on the Internet in 2001 – succinctly states:
The implications of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) are astonishingly broad in scope. Four major implications of TUPE are:
Moreover, putting fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) aside, it is clear that classical physics, quantum physics, and the 20th century Standard Model of high-energy particle physics 2 have essentially provided a material lens, a detailed description of the material domain that occupies the visually apparent foreground of the complex, conditionally relative puzzle of Nature while the background remained hidden. Thus, the massless fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial (subquantum, prequantum) 3 primordial energy domain (NED) not only reveals the essentially unexplored background of our complex puzzle of physical reality just-as-it-is, it also reveals the fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial foundation of the unconditioned one and the conditionally relative many.
Fifty years prior to the development of the Standard Model of high-energy particle physics Albert Einstein firmly rejected Niels Bohr's hypothesis that material reality has meaning only within the explicit act of measurement or experiential observation, and to the end of his life Einstein asserted the objective, independent existence of the material universe. The universal principle of energy (TUPE) not only confirms that Einstein and Bohr were each correct in his own way during the revolutionary scientific transition from macroscopic to subatomic physical reality just-as-it-is, TUPE also leads beyond the subatomic and subnuclear scales of materiality to fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) itself. Historically, the Western scientific tradition that matter is irreducibly fundamental seems to be based on a pre-scientific, pre-Socratic, inherently circular argument postulated by ancient Greek philosophers and handed down from one philosopher-scientist or scholar to another through centuries and millenia. Following the classical laws of mechanics formalized by Isaac Newton in the late 17th century, the matter argument succinctly asserts that:
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus disagreed with his contemporaries and the philosophers who preceded him. His motto was, reportedly, panta rhei (everything is in a state of flux). In contrast to the scope of physics limited by the traditional material view, the increased scope of physics implied by the universal principle of energy (TUPE) opens novel new pathways through the fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED) to a broader, more comprehensive nonmaterial/material physics. New physics:With the publication of his 1905 paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, which describes the first derivation of the mass-energy equation, m = E/c² , 4 Einstein eventually led the 20th century scientific community to the understanding that the relativistic mass of particulate matter that can be weighed and occupies space in a closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) material system is approximately equivalent to the combined potential and kinetic mechanical energy of the particle or system under consideration divided by the square of the speed of light. The popular version of the equation is written as E = mc². But not all physical systems are closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) material systems. Fifty years after Einstein's derivation of m = E/c², the unexpected subatomic violation (apparent failure) of his longstanding mass-energy equivalence in purportedly closed system high-energy particle collider experiments during the late 1950s produced the mysterious, so-called "particle zoo" effect that is properly explained only by the recently discovered universal principle of energy (TUPE). Novel experimental results continue to appear in high-energy collider experiments in proportion to the increased size of the colliders and the particles of interest. The universal principle of energy (TUPE) implies that the exotic particles thus produced seem to confirm that matter/mass is a discrete, organized aggregation (phase transition, change of state) of fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) that cannot exist in the absence of nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE), just as the frozen state of water (ice), for example, cannot exist in the absence of water. The phase transitions (changes of state) also confirm the fundamental, irreducible, massless NPE nature of matter/mass per se. Moreover, the novel collider results suggest that the astonishingly high energy released in the on-shell energy bubble and the ostensibly boundless subnuclear energy on-shell and off-shell during high-energy particle collisions can be seen as a prime example of a complex open (mechanically nonconservative) nonmaterial/material system that is immersed in – and cannot be separated or isolated from – the omnipresent, pervasive NED even in principle. Complex open nonmaterial/material systems are mechanically nonconservative systems in which matter/mass and electric charge are not only created, but also destroyed. Interestingly, the universal principle of energy (TUPE) points directly to the nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED) as the origin of our classical material universe and its encompassing space-time continuum. Unveiling the extradimensional foundation of the material universe suggests not only that humankind lives in an energetic, nonmaterial/material holonomic universe with at least 3 extended dimensions plus 1 time dimension (3+1), but also that it is holographically reconstructed from an energetic holonomic source created within the omnipresent NED on a presently unknown transcendent level of activity that has at least 3 transcendent extended dimensions plus 1 transcendent time dimension (3+1). Hence, time (t = 0) and the initial conditions of our nonmaterial/material holonomic universe can be seen as functions performed on an extradimensional transcendent level (scale) of physical reality just-as-it-is. Therefore, the Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP, pronounced "teep") model of physical reality just-as-it-is implies that each conditionally relative, all-inclusive present moment in our compound open (mechanically nonconservative), nonmaterial/material holonomic system is comprised of at least six extended dimensions and two synchronistic time dimensions (6+2). If TUPE is confirmed by experiment and holonomic matter/mass is determined to be one phase of transcendent, extradimensional nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE), then the deterministic clockwork universe of classical physics as well as the probabilistic quantum physics of the 20th century would be subsumed by the novel nonmaterial energy physics of The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP), thereby providing a robust new physics and a broad new scope of theory and practice in every field of science. Indeed, in principle unconditioned omnipresent, pervasive, nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) is revealed as the fundamental ground of being, the irreducible foundation of the conditionally relative many on every level of material and nonmaterial existence that emerges reciprocally within uncreated, unconditioned oneness. Thus the discovery of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) in the zeroth year of the 21st century has changed human and scientific understanding of the foundation of the universe from this time forward. Nonetheless, the totality of the perpetual puzzle of Nature – the totality of the unconditioned one and the conditionally relative many – remains obscure and difficult for the human mind to grasp. This online series of essays is a work in progress that describes the personal understanding acquired by the author while trekking through a few small areas of 20th century science and physics. The reader may also enjoy some of the 126 poems listed in the Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm Index under Beyond Zen: The Footsteps of the Dragon. Next: Chapter 1, Section 1: The Subquantum Energy Bridge
Reference Notes (Click on the Note number to return to the text): 1 Pais, Abraham. 'Subtle is the Lord...' The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, Oxford University Press, 1982, pp. 29-30. ISBN 0-19-520438-1 (UK paperback) 2 The Standard Model of elementary particles was developed from 1970-1974 by Gerard 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman, recipients of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics. Veltman and 't Hooft each authored a highly recommended book that describes the Standard Model and 20th century elementary particle physics:
3 Subquantum, prequantum: existing prior to the virtual or apparent quantization of nonmaterial primordial energy per se. 4 Einstein, Albert. "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?"; Annalen der Physik, 18 (1905): 639-641.
Index: Essays on Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic ParadigmLast Edit: April 14, 2009. Comments and suggestions welcome. Copyright © 2006-2009 by Alan T. Williams. All rights reserved. |
